[kwlug disc.] tricky situation

[Chris Bruner]

John Van Ostrand wrote:
> > I've got a friend who is trying to set up a network between his office
>> > and his house. He's self employed. At the office he is on a cheap bell
>> > arrangement, dsl, no port forwarding, no static ip. At home he is on
>> > Rogers.
>
> It sounds like Bell has provided a modem/router device. I've seen 
> these before and they really are featureless. The ones I've seen have 
> custom Bell firmware on them. Our solution with these has been to 
> reset them at which point they act as a bridges and you Linux box can 
> do the PPPoE and firewall or you can get a cheap internet gateway.
It's true. It is a modem/router device, that from the factory has port 
forwarding and other features available. From bell it has dhcp and 
that's pretty well it. 

I did try reseting to factory defaults, but the Bell web pages still 
come up on it, which have no way of getting to the portforwarding.
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